Well I use my pseudonym wherever I can. I would like to have it on my passport etc, but I cannot without legally changing it. I guess legal ID is less important than most people think, as I am able to use my pseudonym reasonably well.

And as far as I am concerned, I have changed my name, that is why I use the term "real" name rather than pseudonym. To me the legal name is actually more "pseudo" than the name I chose.

I have contacted those in charge of passports and birth certificates etc, and let them know that I have changed my name, and offered them the chance to correct the mistake in their files, but they have decided not to do so, which is up to them I guess.

I may undergo the legal process of "changing my name", making it official, at some stage, but to me that is like me paying to help someone else correct a mistake in their files. Also there isn't really any pressing need to. It may even be advantageous to have my real name, which gets used everywhere, and which I am known by, but the government knows me by a different one.

Heh you know I shouldn't even be talking about the government as if it were a single entity. I just checked my tax stuff, and it is all my chosen name there. Not sure how that happened.